Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope the decision promotes discussion." This was a classic understatement of what the decision would promote. Mr. Justice Ivan Cleveland Rand of Canada's Supreme Court had just announced a revolutionary arbitration award in the labor dispute at Windsor's sprawling Ford Motor Co. of Canada plant...
...IVAN KIRKHOUSE Toronto...
Neurotics, playing their own warped perspectives against battlefield dangers, often make better-than-adequate soldiers. A few of history's notables-Ivan the Terrible, a manic depressive; Julius Caesar, an epileptic; Alexander the Great, sometimes called the "divine lunatic"; and Peter the Great, who killed his own men in fits of temper-were good soldiers in spite of-or perhaps because of-their mental ills. The Army Medical Corps' Major William Needles has decided that nervous handicaps may act as psychological crutches...
First Prince Dimitri tried, but he fell asleep. Prince Vasily fell asleep too. But Prince Ivan snatched one feather from the Firebird's tail as she tore herself from his grasp. "This feather was so marvelously bright that when it was placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...
...pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with Gray Wolf, King Dolmat, King Afron, Elena the Fair, and Death, are a story that is as ferally haunting as the flight and cry of wild swans...